Bug 534

Summary:	emerge update still wants to go backwards
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Luke Graham <spooq>
Component:	Unclassified	Assignee:	Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) <drobbins>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Luke Graham 2002-02-04 18:34:06 UTC

tundra portage # emerge --pretend update

These are the packages that I would merge, in order.

Calculating system dependencies.................................................................................. done!
[ebuild   U] sys-apps/portage-1.8.8-r1 to /
[ebuild   U] sys-libs/db-1.85-r1 to /				<< HERE
[ebuild   U] sys-devel/perl-5.6.1-r3 to /
[ebuild   U] net-misc/rsync-2.5.2 to /
[ebuild   U] sys-apps/bzip2-1.0.2 to /
[ebuild   U] sys-apps/diffutils-2.7.7 to /
[ebuild   U] sys-apps/fileutils-4.1.4-r1 to /
[ebuild   U] sys-apps/grub-0.90-r5 to /
[ebuild   U] sys-apps/iptables-1.2.5 to /
[ebuild   U] sys-apps/lsof-4.60-r1 to /
[ebuild   U] sys-apps/man-1.5i-r2 to /
[ebuild   U] sys-apps/sh-utils-2.0.11-r1 to /
[ebuild   U] sys-devel/gettext-0.10.40 to /
[ebuild   U] sys-devel/libtool-1.4.1-r1 to /
[ebuild   U] sys-libs/gdbm-1.8.0-r4 to /
[ebuild   U] sys-apps/dcron-2.7-r7 to /
[ebuild   U] sys-apps/devfsd-1.3.21 to /

tundra portage # pkglist | grep db
sys-devel/gdb-5.0-r2
sys-libs/db-3.2.3h-r4					<< HERE
sys-libs/gdbm-1.8.0-r3
sys-libs/pwdb-0.61-r3

Comment 1 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-02-04 19:59:00 UTC

This is actually correct.  Perl requires db-3 and db-1 to be installed.